It’s your final chance to have a go at bowls for FREE – with this third taster session alongside existing Ruddington Bowls Club members. You’re invited to give the game a try for a couple of hours from 2pm to 4pm this Sunday 26th May. There’ll be complimentary tea and cake, too! Shaun Fox (pictured above centre) attended the taster session on 19th May, with his wife Kim and daughter Nancy (above right), and told us: “The whole family had a wonderful time at the bowls club open day on Sunday where we were…
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“Try for free” says Ruddington Bowls Club. Have a go at this sport for a couple of hours, 2pm and 4pm, on Sunday 19th May. Everyone’s welcome. Just wear flat soled shoes, like trainers, and head to the Club on Elms Park, in Ruddington, NG11 6GU. If you’re driving, then there’s off road parking. If you’d like more information about this event, please call 07890 713 517. Ruddington Bowls Club is celebrating its 100th year. Around half of the Club are from Ruddington, and you can find out more on its website >>HERE<<. Disclaimer:…
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“All are welcome to try for free. Please bring flat soled shoes or trainers” for the Centenary Recruitment Day at Ruddington Bowls Club on Elms Park. If you’d like more information about this event, please call 07890 713 517. Around half of the club are from Ruddington. You can find out more about the Ruddington Bowls Club, celebrating its 100th year >>HERE<<. The Open Day is on Sunday 5th May between 2pm and 5pm. There is off road parking. Disclaimer: RUDDINGTON.info publish all diary events in good faith and can’t be held…
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Another special milestone in our village history will be reached during 2024 – when Ruddington Bowls Club celebrates a hundred years. When it was founded in 1924, it was originally called ‘Ruddington (Paget) Bowls Club’, as the land it occupied had been donated by the Paget family. However, just ten years’ later, the club moved to the Green at Elms Park, on grounds owned by Ruddington Parish Council, where it remains to this very day. Outrageous as it seems now, women were not allowed to play bowls there until 1960,…
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Did you know that Ruddington Women’s Institute has been active in our village for ninety-nine years? Ahead of their centenary celebrations, current members are extending a warm welcome to any woman to join them, regardless of age. They’re also keen to dispel some common misconceptions. Committee member Barbara Wheeler says: “Contrary to popular belief, the WI is not all about baking and jam making! Some of us enjoy doing that, but others like to go on visits in the local area, join in the various activities at our meetings or…
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This morning, at Ruddington’s War Memorial, hundreds of villagers gathered in the sunshine on the date and time exactly a century ago that the signing of the Armistice marked the official end of the First World War. This Centenary was an especially poignant time to remember the sixty one servicemen from our own village, who fought for their country between 1914 and 1918, but who never returned home to their families. Preceded by bell-ringing at St Peter’s Church, and a parade of flag-bearing local organisations including representatives from Ruddington Royal British Legion,…
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